I’m glad this is happening — as Jeff Jarvis points out, “new” and “old’ media will live happily ever after. For PR specialists, this especially exciting for the social media-obsessed, who now have plenty of evidence that bloggers and traditional journalists need each other more and more in an a world where knowledge is increasingly networked and “distributed journalism” is slowly becoming the norm.

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We like to watch. We like to share. This is the theory behind the YouTube phenomenon; that the DNA of our YouTube fascination has its roots in the rabid fans of America’s Funniest Home Videos. In this virtually enabled schadenfreude gallery, I suppose we’re all enjoying the pain of karaoke, laughing at how naive lonelygirl15 is (or wait…maybe she’s not) or maybe just wishing we had the guts to record and broadcast ourselves.

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I hope this book has a shelf life longer than one week. Thanks to Joseph Mailander for the tip. I always wonder how books like this will fare, since the print cycle often outdates the content. Sometimes it works. My copies of The Cluetrain Manifesto and the Tipping Point are still getting dogeared today.

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Time Magazine, Hoping to Gain Readers, Shifts to Friday - New York Times

Time Magazine has finally announced what most of us already realize — the time to issue a print magazine is on Fridays, not Mondays, as Time has been doing for years. With the conversion to the 24 hour news cycle thoroughly entrenched in the way we process information, the print news magazine is almost irrelevant unless it can provide substantial analysis. The weekends are now the only time working Americans have to process any bits of information not on a screen.

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Most people are missing the point about YouTube - MarketWatch

John Dvorak is so brave. And I’m sure Macromedia is pleased with this story as well — very few people have pointed out that You Tube works well and has built an audience quickly because of its ease of entry and use of flash to display video. Now he needs to convince Gawker to bring Screenhead back!

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Google Watch : Relax: Google is Joking about the Verb Thing.

Of course, “google” was entered into Webster’s for the first time this year and by all accounts, is indeed a verb. The widespread use of “google” as a verb doesn’t really have anthing to do with Google, the company, at least not directly. The usage really represents a huge revolution in the way users and consumers receive messages, and has pretty big repercussions for those of us who practice PR. The “direct to consumer” strategy isn’t a fad, it’s part of the entry of “finability” into the mix of desired effects. Magazine covers are great, but the true nature of publicity now lives deep within search engine algorithms.

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Time Warner Cable Offers Free Photo Sharing Tool » Telecommunications Industry News.

Big/old media isn’t running scared from social media, it’s taking on its look and feel - this new Time Warner
Cable service is basically FlickrTV, enabling users to post and share photos on their tvs (the community will be other Time Warner customers). That’s smart — if youi can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

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Web 2.0 CEO Quotes From TechCrunch Video at ExperienceCurve provides a good summary of TechCrunch’s recent video survey of the 2.0 landscape. What’s interesting to me is that 2.0 is the platform for social media. I think people have probably wanted to actually do all the great things that Ajax, interactivity and scalable social networking enable, but had no shiny places to go and to those things. Now someone just needs to explain to me why Ebay hasn’t added any of this funcitonality to its site.

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Little Green Footballs’ Charles Johnson stands out as this week’s super blogger. Not only did this eccentric blogger stand up to Reuters, but he brought them accountable for this photo, which was tipped off as a fake by a tipster and readerof his blog. Freelancer Adnan Hajj had added a LOT more smoke to the fire, with the help of Photoshop, adding a layer of conflict that really didn’t happen. The story hit other mainstream outlets like USA Today today and is an encouraging moment in the evolution of how professional journalism works, how it’s defined and how it’s policed.

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Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary

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